[Xfce-bugs] [Bug 3578] option to not start xscreensaver when starting xfce4

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http://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3578





--- Comment #25 from Yves-Alexis Perez <corsac at debian.org>  2009-02-10 12:27:48 UTC ---
This discussion is leading to nowhere. This is my last comment for now, let
this settle down.

(In reply to comment #24)
> User should know which screensaver is installed even then.

Some user don't care which screensaver they use. Some do.

> I suppose most end
> users do not want to change screensaver used by the distribution.

What on multi-user installs? What if I have a user using Xfce with
gnome-screensaver, another using Xfce with xscreensaver, another using GNOME,
another using KDE, …


> If user wants
> to lock screen automaticly in automatic login, he/she has to start a
> screensaver daemon before autostarted applications anyway (at least if he/she
> uses gnome-screensaver or xscreensaver).

Then I think that, in this corner case (really, who wants to lock the screen at
login anyway? Really a corner case), the user (or the site maintainer if this
is for a wide installation) can prepare his own script to autostart the
run+lock. Or that should be implemented directly in the screensavers, and then
port the bug to their bugzilla.



> 
> I think this bug is more about not changing a screensaver used by Xfce just by
> installing one. E.g. I changed screensaver used by Xfce accidentally when I
> installed LXDE desktop environment in Xubuntu (8.10). I think a separate script
> could be called from xinitrc to start a screensaver daemon; the script could
> have several commented out start commands (for convenience) and one
> (uncommented) default start command, say "xscreensaver -no-splash &" to please
> Brian J. Tarricone. That kind of script would not be so hard to edit.

It already exists. It's /etc/xdg/xfce4/xinitrc. No need to seperate that to yet
another script. We already have xdg-screensaver and xflock4.

> One could
> edit xflock4 script respectively (so that it would not have to autodetect any
> running daemon; see Bug 4417).

Sure, having each and every user edit scripts in /usr/bin is really better than
autodetection…

By the way, I know there are some levels in the parallel startup. All apps
starting at one level must have be run before next level is started. So it can
easily fix the run+lock problem. I don't know if there's documentation on it,
at least there is xfce4-session code. 

Cheers,
--
Yves-Alexis

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